St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-30
AN ALLIANCE.
Important Combination Of Roads
in the Northwest.

in the Northwest.
IsHPEMING, Mich, Oct. 29.-The cat
is out of the bag at last. The Northern
Pacific, Duluth, South Shore & Allan
tic, Michigan Central and New York
Central & Hudson River railroads have
formed an alliance, offensive and de-
fensive, and will constitute new
through line from the Pacific to the At
lantic as soon as the Duluth, South
!. Shore Il Atlantic railway extension is
completed, which will be about Jan. l.
Two other railroads are interested in
cific is building branch line to Sault
Ste. Marie, which the Duluth. South
Shore S Atlantic has already reached
by similar line. An interna-
tional bridge costing sl5O,O0O is
now well under way and will span
the rapids of the Ste. Marie before
Christmas. The Canadian Pacific will
take a portion of the Western grain
and produce at the $780, and haul
direct to Montreal for shipment to
Europe. The Milwaukee Northern,
which operates $50 miles of road be-
tween Milwaukee and Republic, Mich,
connects with the Duluth, South Shore
IL Atlantic at the latter point, and be-
freight and passengers of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul. The Milwaukee
IL Northern management has bought
the long defunct Ontonagon Il Brule
railroad, twenty-five miles in length,
and laid over logs ana StumpS with ties
four feet apart. This road was
built to
EARN A LARGE LAND GRANT.
By some hOcuS-p0cuS the owners got
the road accepted. and of course took
immediate possession of the valuable
land grant, after which nothing further
was done: The government has at last
succeeded in gaining possession of the
forfeited 0. Il b. land. and the owners
of the railroad have sold it to the NJ. &
n. The line will be rebuilt and eX-
A, after which the Milwaukee & North
ern will run through trains from Mil
Waukee to OntOnagon, using the South
Shore lines track between Republic
and Dogberry. By this arrangement
the nj. d \. gets Lake Superior ter
minus at Ontonag0n and the D., S. S. d
A. gets direct line to Milwaukee and
Chicago. The arrangement is mutually
beneficial and therefore likely to last
All this consolidation and pool
ing of interest bodies no
good to the Chicago IL Northwestern
railway, which has for years had almost
monopoly of the freight and passen-
ger business between the upper penin-
sula of Michigan and the rest of the
country. The Chicago & Northwestern
company is one of the most powerful
and extensive railway systems in the
country, and
NO GRASS WILL GROW
under the feet of the directors while the
consolidation of interests of the other
roads is taking place. This year the
Chicago IL Northwestern has extended
its MenOminee river iiIie from Iron
river to the Gogebic range. where it con-
meets with the Milwaukee. Lake Shore d
Western, a friendly line, which has
Ashland as its northern terminus. The
Chicago & Northwestern is now build
ing from Ishpeming to Republic and
Michigamme, and will probably build
to HOughton, the leading town of
the copper and mining region, next
year. The Minneapolis, Sault Ste
Marie & Atlantic railroad is a road
which is being built principally by Min
neSota capital, and will run. on almost
an air line from Minneapolis to Sault
Ste. Marie. All of the country through
which it passes is rich, and the local
traffic alone would in a short time make